Improvement in tool for opening boxes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

LEONARD D. HIOWARD, OF ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN T OOL-FOR OPENING BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 96,700, dated November 9, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD D. HOWARD, of St. J ohnsbury, in the county of Caledonia and State of Vermont, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Tools; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specicat-ion, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of my invention in perspective. Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinal section 'of the same.

My invention has relation to implements for opening boxes; and it consists, mainly, in the combination of a chisel, adapted for driving under or between the boards of a box, with a claw adapted for drawing nails therefrom.

The letter A of the drawings represents the chisel part of my device, having a head cut oil square, as shown at c, to provide for using` a hammer thereon.

The letter B represents a claw, of the usual shape, designed for use in drawing nails.

The above-described tool is formed in one piece of metal, and is a convenient and effective implement for all parties who have boxes to open.

The chisel is a cold-chisel, so made in order that the heads of nails ortacks which cannot be drawn with the claw may be cut off'.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The implement herein described, having chisel A, with its shoulder o, and claw B, constructed substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony that I claim the above l have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

LEONARD D. IIL) WARD.

lVitnesses H. M. CHADWIOK, A. Y. Ci-IADWICK. 

